NorCal families connect with loved ones near Boston

Boston lockdown affects family members in Calif.

More than one million people in the greater Boston area were shutin on Friday, following a lockdown of the city of Boston.

That lockdown had repercussions 3,000 miles away in California, where people reached out to friends and family living back East.

KCRA 3 found two Carmichael families directly affected by the tragic shootings in Boston and the shutdown of the city.

Harvard medical student Kesav Raghavan received multiple phone warnings from school. He was home in Carmichael this week, studying for his medical exams.

“I’ve been calling some of my friends who are still back there in Boston and always going online to check,” he told KCRA 3.

Fortunately, all of Raghavan’s friends are safe and unharmed.

Just a few miles away, another Carmichael family used Skype and cellphones to talk to their daughter and son-in-law who live just 100 yards from the Boston city limit.

“We probably talk three times a day,” said Bill Hambrick, whose daughter Melanie Laskowski lives in Milton, Mass. “I send out a couple of texts every day: 'What’s going on? How are you doing? Are you at work? Are you at home?'”